Intimate Enemies. Violence and Reconciliation in Peru
Kimberly Theidon illuminates both the horrific and beautiful complexities of post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice as it unfolds on the ground via her ethnography,…
Read MoreKimberly Theidon illuminates both the horrific and beautiful complexities of post-conflict reconstruction and transitional justice as it unfolds on the ground via her ethnography,…
Read MoreThere is a very fine line between describing the United States of America’s gruesome spectacles of botched executions in enough detail to situate them…
Read MoreAnastasia Martino interviews Claudio Lomnitz on the relationship between history and anthropology, the Mexican revolution and the role of the anthropologist as a public…
Read MoreI want to begin with Julia´s history, an indigenous woman from the South of Colombia who currently lives in one of Bogotá’s massive shantytowns….
Read More“It’s already the era of demokrasi, you know,” Pak Ketut says, nodding his head in firm approval, stretching out each syllable of the Indonesianized…
Read MoreOver the past week ‘the world’ has been in shock over the murders of the Charlie Hebdo journalists – or has it? We consider this issue via…
Read MoreThis week, Allegra investigates a difficult subject: violence and suffering as these are experienced on the margins and peripheries of the late modern world….
Read MoreIt has been a stimulating week at Allegra, with many fabulous posts by anthropologists working on ‘violence’. If you missed it, do not panic:…
Read MoreGilgit Town, the administrative capital of the impoverished, neglected and semi-autonomous Gilgit-Baltistan region in northern Pakistan, has been at the heart of nearly 30…
Read MoreThe African continent has been at the forefront of experiments with transitional justice. There have been amnesties, truth commissions, criminal trials and supposedly localized…
Read MoreI first visited Lyari in August 2012 when I joined Laurent Gayer in conducting a focus group discussion with members of a community-based organization,…
Read MoreBrief extract from a forthcoming publication Over the past decades, the rapid rise of Hindu nationalism or Hindutva in India has placed women…
Read More